Beverage Development Program.

Beverage development starts with your idea. We work with you to select functional ingredients, choose sweeteners, and create the flavor profile you want. From there, we produce a commercial batch, giving you products ready for trade shows, buyer presentations, or direct-to-consumer sales. The formula we develop is your intellectual property—you’ll receive a Master Formula with full manufacturing details, plus vendor sources for ingredients and components. Here’s how the program works:

1. BEVERAGE DEVELOPMENT: This includes helping you select functional ingredients, and then develop the taste, flavor, and manufacturing process of the beverage. 

2. LABORATORY SAMPLES:We will make laboratory samples and work with you to produce the flavor that you want.

3. ORGANIC CERTIFICATION: If your product qualifies, we will get your beverage organic certification with our certifier (additional charge of $650 per product certified).

4. KOSHER CERTIFICATION: If your product qualifies, we can also arrange for certification with the Atlanta Kashruth Commission. You pay AKC directly.

5. NON-GMO CERTIFICATION: If your product qualifies, we can also help you get non-GMO certification for your beverage.

6. BEVERAGE STABILITY: The manufacturing process that we develop for your beverage will give it a minimum 24-month microbial shelf life under ambient storage.

7. PROCESS AUTHORITY LETTER:This is an FDA requirement for most beverages. An independent laboratory called a Process Authority will verify and approve our production process.

8. FDA PROCESS FILING: The FDA requires that we file a process notification for most beverages. This is not a product or label approval—the FDA reviews and approves our production process for consumer safety. 

9. NUTRITION FACTS / SUPPLEMENT FACTS PANEL: We will design the panel in the correct format for your label. If this requires a full Nutrition Facts analysis, there will be an additional laboratory charge.

10. LABELS: We will give you recommendations for label printers that other customers have used. You will deal directly with the printer and approve proofs before printing. We will coordinate with the printer to make sure that the label is sized correctly for your bottle and that it meets FDA requirements.

11. SECONDARY PACKAGING: We can also give you referrals to printers of unit and display boxes, and manufacturers of master cases. Or we can purchase generic boxes for you.

12. MANUFACTURING AND QUALITY CONTROL: We will produce a trial batch of your product under our Current Good Manufacturing Practices. 

13. CERTIFICATE OF ANALYSIS: We analyze your product after production and give you a Certificate of Analysis for the batch.

14. MASTER FORMULATION: This is the master manufacturing record with your formula, ingredients, components, suppliers and manufacturing steps.

15. PRODUCT LIABILITY INSURANCE: You will be added to our product liability policy. Our insurance agent will give you a certificate as an additional insured. 

16. EXPORT DOCUMENTATION: If you plan to export your product, an Export/Free Sale Certificate and a cGMP Certificate from the State of Florida are available for a $250 additional charge per country.

What is Extra?

INGREDIENTS: Included in the program cost are ingredients that we need for the beverage development, unless you require us to use a special branded ingredient. For the commercial production, we supply basic ingredients such as acidifiers at no charge. Other ingredients such as functional ingredients, sweeteners, flavors and juice concentrates are either available from our inventory or we will purchase for you at cost. 

BOTTLES AND CAPS: You can buy bottles and caps from us if we have them in inventory. Otherwise, we will buy them for you.

Project Length.

Approximately 8 weeks

Cost.

Flat fee of $10,000

How Much Product Do I Get?

We will make a commercial production of 1,000 finished bottles that you can use for test marketing, show to buyers or sell to consumers. We can produce additional bottles at a per-bottle  charge. 

 

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